NASA to let private company Vast visit space station for private mission in 2027

NASA has let Axiom Space make four visits to the International Space Station and a fifth next year, but on Thursday the agency announced a new private company would be allowed a mission as well.
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NASA SpaceX Crew-12 to test medical and food growth systems in microgravity

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission conducts medical and plant research aboard the International Space Station to improve intravenous fluid systems, cardiovascular treatments, and food growth in microgravity.

Watch this time-lapse animation of the International Space Station being assembled

Watch as the International Space Station takes shape in this time-lapsed NASA animation of its decade-long assembly, which began in 1998. Also, see a time-lapsed flyaround of the orbital outpost captured by the Space Shuttle STS-119 mission.
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Jewish astronaut Jessica Meir headed to International Space Station, with stuffed animal in tow

Meir, a marine biologist and physiologist and daughter of an Iraqi-Israeli father and Swedish mother, served as a flight engineer on a 2019-2020 expedition to the space station and participated in the first all-female spacewalks.